Music has always played an important role in Funeral services. Browse our sheet music and scores, and let Stretta help you find the right music today.
Since the 13th century, clergymen have gathered in calendar brotherhoods on the calends, the first days of each month, to remember their deceased brothers. As at the funerals themselves, there was extensive singing. Later, choirs emerged from this ritual, to perform motets at funerals, in church or at the grave.
In addition to settings of Requiems, the Dutch composers of the 15th and 16th centuries wrote funeral motets to commemorate princes and rulers, which continued to spread across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, with settings such as Handel’s Funeral Music for Queen Caroline, Musical Exequies by Heinrich Schütz and Purcells’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary. This began to expand into the secular world with works like Monteverdi’s Lamento d‘Arianna.
In France, the Sarabande was the most popular lament before the funeral march developed in the late 18th century. In the last century, new works such as dirges and epitaphs have entered the repertoire as expressions of mourning and grief.
Nowadays, pop or rock songs are often played at funerals. Here is a list of popular modern songs for funeral ceremonies:
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 145419
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 486712
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 147170
Heft 1
Partitur
for: Flute, 2 violins, viola, cello; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 111056
MH 382
Partitur
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (2 Cornetti, Pauken, 2 Violinen, Violoncello / Kontrabass, Orgel)
Score
Item no.: 237777
Meditation über das erste Präludium C-Dur aus dem "Wohltemperierten Klavier"
for: Piano
Item no.: 356507
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 616018
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 477531
zusammen mit Schubert, F.: Ave Maria, tief (D-Dur)
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1668101
Ellens dritter Gesang (Hymne an die Jungfrau), aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
D. 839 (op. 52, Nr. 6)
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2220
for voice and string quartet
for: Singstimme und Streichquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 725060
(zus. mit Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria)
for: Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 760376
Scala enigmatica armonizzata a 4 voci miste dai "Quattro Pezzi Sacri"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1160
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), organ
Music score
Item no.: 563528
for: Accordion
Score
Item no.: 258031
for: Bandoneon (soloist), piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 565337
Akkordeon und Melodieinstrument in der Kirche
für Akkordeon und Melodiestimme in C, B, Es
for: Accordion, melody instrument
Score, solo part
Item no.: 663583
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 283755
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 610401
für Singstimme (Alt), Violine und Orgel
for: Voice (alto), violin, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 677116
für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 676235
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 631783
Voce Con Tromba 32
for: GES-H (S) TRP KLAV (CEMB/ORG)
Item no.: 486476
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 491272
for: Bass trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596406
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596405
for: Horn (F), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596403
Marianische Themen für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 562851
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 672018
Solo für Kornett, Es-Horn, Euphonium, Posaune, Bass-Posaune, Es-Basstuba oder B-Basstuba
for: Voice [cornet, horn, trombone, euphonium], brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671768
3 Transkriptionen für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 367920
for: Brass ensemble (5 parts)
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 597175
Euphonium & Streicher
for: Euphonium, strings
Sheet music
Item no.: 591341
Flute & Streicher
for: Flute, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596904
Flute & Streicher
for: Flute, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596903
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590155
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590152
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 206427
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 666459
Easy Winners
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 168444
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 389067
EHWV 116
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) a cappella, 2 Soli (SA) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 261679
Easy Piano
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Single edition
Item no.: 578208
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 488146
for: Small wind band
Score
Item no.: 375825
Item no.: 163199
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131393
Fantasieop. 52/ 6D 839
for: Piano
Item no.: 356403
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